U.S. Military Hires Muslim Brotherhood Chaplains

Muslim Brotherhood entity, The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), has announced that the U.S. military is once again using their chaplains for active-duty service after a 15-year lull.

Make no mistake, the ISNA has a well-documented extremist history.

The Muslim Brotherhood listed ISNA as one of its main fronts in ’91. And, declassified FBI memos state that the ISNA is a component of the Muslim Brotherhood, who sees its “work in America as a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.”

ISNA has a well-documented extremist history. In 1991, the Muslim Brotherhood listed ISNA as one of its main fronts. Declassified FBI memos said ISNA is a component of the Muslim Brotherhood, who sees its “work in America as a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.”

In 2007, the U.S. government labeled ISNA a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism-financing trial involving the Holy Land Foundation funneling money to Hamas. The label was upheld in 2009 because of “ample” evidence linking ISNA to Hamas. Last year, ISNA’s Canadian affiliate lost its status as a charity because of its accounting discrepancies and links to Pakistani terrorists.

The two chaplains endorsed by ISNA are Sgt. Mustapha Rahouchen, who will be used by the U.S. Army, and Captain Rafael Lantiqua, who was chosen by the U.S. Air Force.

In April 2013, the Clarion Projectbroke the story that the U.S. Air Force Chaplain Corps had paid ISNA almost $5,000 for two advertisements in its magazine. When we contacted the Air Force about ISNA’s ties to the Brotherhood, we received the following response:

“The Islamic Society of North America is one of many religious organizations recognized by the Department of Defense that satisfy the ecclesiastical requirements to endorse qualified religious ministry professionals to serve as chaplains within the Military Departments.”

This story speaks to the broader threat posed by Islamist involvement in Muslim chaplain programs.

The Muslim chaplaincy services for the military and prisons were started by Abdurrahman Alamoudi, who was convicted in 2003 on terrorism-related charges. He later admitted that he was a secret member of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.

ISNA is one of the groups that the U.S. military trusts to certify Muslim chaplains. The military’s former endorsing agent was Dr. Louay Safi, an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami al-Arian. Safi, like Alamoudi, later admitted to having been a Brotherhood operative.

Safi wrote in 2003, “The war against the apostates [non-believers of Islam] is carried out not to force them to accept Islam, but to enforce the Islamic law and maintain order.”

He continued: “It is up to the Muslim leadership to assess the situation and weigh the circumstances as well as the capacity of the Muslim community before deciding the appropriate type of jihad. At one stage, Muslims may find that jihad through persuasion or peaceful resistance is the best and most effective method to achieve just peace.”

In 2004, he said that the “assertion by ‘world leaders’ that the war on terrorism is not a war on Islam is nothing but a piece of propaganda and disinformation that was meant to appease Western Muslims and to maintain the coalition against terrorism.”

He was later suspended from working on U.S. military bases because of a criminal investigation. Safi is now working with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim activist opposed to Islamism who served in the U.S. Navy, wrote in 2010 that a friend of his in the U.S. Army recently told him of his troubling interaction with an active-duty Muslim chaplain.

His friend asked the imam what his response would be if a Muslim soldier asked him if Islam prevented him from participating in combat against fellow Muslims. The answer should have been easy: Serve your country as you swore to do. Instead, the imam said he’d tell the soldier that he’s not qualified to answer the question and to ask ISNA.

I’m afraid he didn’t listen too close to history. Jimmy Carter stopped the payments to the Mullahs who supported the Shaw, and they brought radical Islam to power, and America was held hostage. Then his administration thought it a good idea to give agricultural credits to Iraq and encourage Saddam to start a conflict with them over water ways that were disputed, and he helped finance Saddam to the 4th largest army in the world until the first Gulf War, where Democrats controlling the House and Senate agreed to finance for Bush 41 if he would just give them the tax increases they wanted.

Now Obama’s Administration, with the help of George Soros, Samantha Powers, and Cass Sunstein thought they would help overthrow Qadaffi & Mubaric, using manipulations of the propane market to cause misery and cause the people’s financial hardship as an excuse to bring the Muslim Brotherhood to power, telling us they were for Democracy – http://youtu.be/jBFysh7gQqE?list=PLFBBDB57F554BB8B1- never mind the Muslim Brotherhood was behind the assassination of Anwar Sadat for making “peace” with Israel, were involved with Egyptian Islamic Jihad to do so, never mind they were involved in the first attack on the WTC in 1993, never mind they changed their name to “al Qaeda” and now the MSM is “shocked” to see “al Qaeda’s” black flag in the streets of Egypt and radical Muslims holding up signs saying, “Obama, Obama, we are all Osamas”